On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:02:40AM -0500, mark wrote:
On 11/13/17 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote:
My guess is: you ran "startx". That starts a session as the user that runs "startx"
Excuse me, but there's no need for insults. You know perfectly well that I'm a professional sysadmin, and that I've been here for years.
It's a Netbook. I yum groupinstalled xfce, created an /etc/sysconfig/desktop, added a line in /etc/X11/prefdm to include xfce, copying one of the other lines, and rebooted. It came in in runlevel 5, no login.
In other words, what I'd do with any other display manager.
I believe that's the mistake you made, you told prefdm to start xfce instead of a display manager, which is what the prefdm upstart service starts. As far as I know, xfce doesn't include a display manager.
Normally, you'd start xfce from gdm (since its part of the default desktop install) but you could always use xdm to do so as well. I believe you'll need to update your ~/.Xclients or ~/.xsession for per-user configs, or change the default in /etc/sysconfig/desktop.
(It's been a couple years since I've touched a el6 desktop so I might be wrong here.)